thx Bob. (Is there any list you're not subscribed :) Using 'null' is slightly shorter than my 'sed' command...but somehow i can't help it's still not really straight enough. Doing complicated things just to have quite common formatted filenames handled, is so *uncool* for a modern shell !
If there's really no other way, then do you know of a different shell can maintain whitespace names just automatically ? I'd even move to csh if i knew it works better there. --micha [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx): > Try using find and xargs. Here are some examples. > find . -print0 | xargs -r0 chmod a+rX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]